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Investing in biodiverse agriculture in Ecuador’s highlands: UNORCAC and the Santa Anita cooperative
Article, 31 May 2024
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Brazilian philanthropies’ vision to tackle social and climate injustices
… movements, civil society and research organisations, they use their financial resources, political connections and social capital to support the recognition, protection and fulfilment of …
Insight, 22 May 2025
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Frontline Funds Accelerator: catalysing climate investment to the grassroots
Project, 01 July 2021
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The Dasgupta Review needed to engage today's finance ministers: here’s how
… an exceptionally rigorous exposition of the economics of natural capital and its importance to economic wealth, and sets out a … that inflation does not drive natural capital extraction); and financial regulation i.e. banking and insurance supervision (for … extraction and supporting the global  Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosure . These very practical steps for finance ministries …
Insight, 11 February 2021
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 6 Social network analysis, social capital and their policy implications
… begins: PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988­2001 6 Social network analysis, social capital and their policy implications Marion Gibbon and Durga Pokhrel Introduction Manufactured community capital: the physical infrastructure of a community. Financial capital is The quality of relationships among and between … PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 6 Social network analysis, social capital and their policy implications …
Publication, 01 January 1999
G7 needs to provide debt relief, SDRs and aid for COVID-19 recovery and climate goals in low-income countries
… withstand the economic shock inflicted by COVID-19 that also includes financial support through the reallocation of special drawing rights (SDRs), protecting aid budgets and increasing capital of multilateral and regional development banks. IIED director … promoted a debt service suspension initiative to free up countries’ financial resources to combat and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, it …
News, 10 June 2021
People installing solar panels in a field
Accelerating energy access with aggregation
… energy companies will be needed – with a total of $26 billion in capital. Building this pipeline will be decisive in delivering energy … well as business support and market stimulation. Aggregators – funds, financial intermediaries, public programmes and other structures – use … links to policymakers and generating demand. Energy access funds and financial intermediaries are attracting investors with structured funds. …
Article, 13 November 2019
Five women look at a tomato plant in a vegtable plot
Empowering women forest and farm producers: learning from the best
… as well as general business training (for example management, financial literacy, marketing). Getting training to its millions of … to finance Women in the informal sector often have little to no capital or assets. As a way of growing their financial resources, women save together in the ‘Swashrayi’ groups, …
Insight, 27 March 2023
Woman waters seedlings
Delivering high-quality, predictable and accessible climate finance for least developed countries
… in LIFE-AR’s first cohort.   With a weak public financial management (PFM) system, Malawi has been unable to effectively … rigorously at the various mechanisms for channelling international financial flows. This is to assess whether the finance aligns with the … government financial system – including technical expertise and human capital − that last and are retained beyond the duration of the …
Insight, 03 November 2021
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Climate-vulnerable indebted countries paying billions to rich polluters
… the huge sums countries in the global South spent on interest and capital repayments to the richest nations, G20 countries still held a … to meet in Gandhinagar, India. IIED is calling on the G20 to create a financial system that is fairer to people on the front line of climate …
News, 10 July 2023